It makes me cringe a bit to see him being a bigot. It's not surprising, since he is very hung up about the rules of his society. He is already undead but still insists on keeping the duelling rules when fighting an enemy who has no intention to do so. Hmm maybe I should reread the comic pages about him and his daughter after this, she is into magic too. Also, I wonder whether the character will ever appear in the main story, since it's just a side story most comic readers don't know.

Well discussion about this comic is moving on glacial scale even for xkcd fora standards, but ... that's just fine!

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PeteP wrote:It makes me cringe a bit to see him being a bigot. It's not surprising, since he is very hung up about the rules of his society. He is already undead but still insists on keeping the duelling rules when fighting an enemy who has no intention to do so. Hmm maybe I should reread the comic pages about him and his daughter after this, she is into magic too.

This is why I like Duane. (As a character, of course.) He is an upstanding figure who sticks to his principles with an adamant immovable righteousness, felt almost like too idealized great father in his private life in the flashback sequence, and while the ethico-moral framework he works on is a bit more ...fantasy-fascist than I'd like ... it really isn't unrecognizable. Because there is a certain point in sticking to the "honor", such as dueling rules, even when they don't make sense, and he gets it. And the fantasy bit allows to overlook the fascist bit.